DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.dbase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Asthon Tate

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

1979

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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